Mastering Men's Gymnastics - Beginning Skills and Drills
featuring Coach Mark Williams
Description
About the course:
This comprehensive video encompasses all aspects of beginning gymnastics for boys and men. Topics covered include: techniques and progressions for floor exercise, pommel horse, still rings, vault, parallel bars and the horizontal bar. Coach Mark Williams provides all the basic information gymnastics coaches and instructors need to make their coaching experiences successful. This program was designed to help coaches develop basic skills in young gymnasts. The objective is to teach essential skills for every event and develop a sound foundation from which higher level skills can be learned.
About the coach:
Mark Williams has become a household name in the world of gymnastics. The Oklahoma Sooner head coach has had success at every level of the sport and was recently inducted as one of the members of the 2015 class into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame, just another testament to the outstanding coaching he has done with the national team and the OU men’s gymnastics squad. Williams has established OU as the nation’s elite program with nine national titles in the past 16 years, claiming crowns in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2017 and most recently in 2018. Mark Williams has also made an impact on the international level, most recently serving as the head coach for Team USA at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
What You Will Learn!
- Students will have a better understanding of the important fundamentals and drills for front and back tumbling.
- Students will learn beginning skills and drills for the pommel horse event.
- Students will learn beginning skills and drills for the rings event.
- Students will learn beginning skills and drills for the high bar.
- Students will learn beginning skills and drills for the vault.
- Students will learn beginning skills and drills for the parallel bars.
Who Should Attend!
- Gymnastics coaches and gymnasts at the beginning level would benefit from taking this course.